March

Rollin through manawa sunday, it was pretty awesome. especially considering the last time i rode there this is what the trail looked like. I almost miss all that winter riding.

BikeWire

i make a profile at Bikewire.net. find it here. I have no idea what the elevation is for Swanson or L&C so i guessed. I wish Chris would hurry up and Map them so I can have some elevation info. :)

Stupid bikes...

i assume most people have seen this by now. In case you haven't, politicians can be so funny.

i think he is trying to be sarcastic.

Swanson

Saturday. 1:30.

Time to cash in my reward for all the ass kickingly hard riding i did this winter.

Fn Dirt.

Dirt still too wet? You can make a short but fun as hell hill climbing ride out of a trip to South Omaha. I even got hassled by a cop!

And mapmyride.com is my new best friend.
Tonight's ride.

Do you read 'Up in Alaska?'

this is a blog of a woman that lives in alaska and loves the cold and endurance riding.
I have this blog in my RSS feed and it is always pretty good. If you have a few minutes look in the march log and there are "day one: ..." posts. These are recaps of each day she rode the Iditarod on a Surly Pugsley. It is pretty interesting. Sleeping in a bivey at 20 below, trying to get a 70 pound packed bike across a frozen waterfall...

http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/

Spring Showers

So I was listening to some old Iron Maiden and cleaning my kitchen and I noticed that the Rig was a crusty tan/grey color and decided it needed a good spring cleaning, wash all the gross winter debris away.

I had no idea how i should clean it so I just put in the shower and barely turned on the water, used a sponge to sqeeze water on the parts that the shower head could not reach and then just patted it down. I then re-greased all greezy parts and now it looks so happy.

Is that a better way to do this?

The Wabash aint dry and it aint pretty right now, but it was a good day to be out in the middle of nowhere.

Lincoln

Bob, Jim, fellow sufferfest veterans, here is the lincoln route, when we gonna do this, its about 70 miles longer than i can handle

SUFFERFEST-LINCOLN

Flight of the Conchords rule.

My new theme song 4 lyfe.

Sunday

Some people go to church on Sundays, I ride my bike. Im thinking maybe ride from bellvue down to the platte river bridge, depending on what the wind is doing.

Warmth and Sun

Today was about the best commute to work ive had since i lived in Lincoln. Weather is gorgeous, days like today make me realize how much i hate cars.

Wednesday evening.

Hope the single track drys out, but regardless of the dirt condition, were riding somewhere.

Bob heres that route to Lincoln, should be able to shave 15 miles off it no prob.

Lincoln

best drunk wreck ever.

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weathers kind of gonna suck, but sunday riding is go. meet at noon at dodge riverside restaraunt for lunch, the pain train hits the trail at one.

Friday evening. Manawa, im gonna check it out, if it aint icy, ill be riding. Who's comin with?

Sunday Sunday Sunday

I just realized i need to make a distinction between "personal" mapping time, and "work" mapping time. Shouldnt be mapping out bike routes when ive got real maps to make. Here is the proposal for this Sunday. Meet for breakfast here at noon. Then do a loop around Council Bluffs. 27 miles with two big hills.

gmaps

heres a handy website for planning out rides, www.gmap-pedometer.com

A Formal Introduction.

Alright. To make it easier to get in touch about the weekend group rides, ive invited peeps to this blog so we can post rides, maps, pics and so on. Basically im trying to save myself the trouble of calling everyone about riding every weekend. If its a ride i came up with, ill try to post a map, so you arent surprised when ten miles into the ride i tell you youve still got fourty left to go. Any ideas for the weekend sufferfest?